Linda Hogan

Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems Linda Hogan

Dark. Sweet. offers readers the sweep of LindaHogan's work?environmental and spiritual concerns, her Chickasaw heritage?in spare, elemental, visionary language.

From "Those Who Thunder":

Those who thunder
have dark hair
and red throw rugs.
They burn paper in bathroom sinks.
Their voices refuse to suffer
and their silences know the way
straight to the heart;
it's bus route number eight.

Linda Hogan is the recipient of the 2007 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award. Her poetry has received an American Book Award, Colorado Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle nomination.